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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
1560 portrait by Hans Eworth. Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), [1] was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
Rose Laure Allatini was born in Vienna, into a large and prosperous Jewish family. [4] Her father, Roberto Allatini, was born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) on 17 December 1856, to Moïse (Moses) Allatini (1809–1882) and Rosa Mortera (1819 – 1892); [5] her mother, Bronislawa ("Bronia") Rapoport von Porada was born in Krakow, Poland (then under Austrian control) on 17 December ...
Roosevelt supported increased roles for women and African-Americans in the war effort, and began to advocate for women to be given factory jobs a year before it became a widespread practice. [ 195 ] [ 196 ] In 1942, she urged women of all social backgrounds to learn trades, saying: "if I were of a debutante age I would go into a factory–any ...
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.
“She had a Māori woman, but she wasn't a Māori artist, you didn't meet the criteria." The post Māori Artist Community Condemns White Woman’s ‘Entitlement’ first appeared on Bored Panda.
The video of a college student distancing herself from the man has resonated with women fed up with men invading their personal space. Woman's back-bending rejection technique goes viral Skip to ...
In 1805, Anne Lister was sent to the Manor House School in York (in the King's Manor buildings), where Anne met her first love, Eliza Raine (1791–1860). [5] Raine was the illegitimate, half-Indian daughter of an East India Company surgeon in Madras, brought to Yorkshire after his death and set to inherit a substantial amount of money. [6]